Who Is the Greatest?
Actividades del grupo

Scripture Reading:Mark 9:30-37

FIRST AND LAST RELAY:

Divide the children into teams. Each team can run a relay together in a designated area. The last one on each team to reach the other side will be the first ones to being the next running relay. Continue as time allows. The teacher could also tell the children what each relay is if a change from just running the relay is desired, such as hopping, skipping and such.

SERVING EACH OTHER:

Divide the children into two teams and have them stand across from each other. The teacher can hand each player on one team an item that they will SERVE to the other team member standing across from them, or the "serving team" can run to a table and take ONE item to serve to someone on the other team. After everyone is served, then the other team will serve their opposing team.

SERVING CLAY:

Each child can be given some modeling clay to form items that can be served, or forms of people, etc. Ideas would be to serve food items, or a rake or a lawn mower, bed to make, book to read to someone, etc.

RAINBOW FISH:

Give children construction paper, markers/crayons, and scissors to cut out fish. Encourage children to color their fish with many colors like a rainbow and encouraging words from today's lesson so children can remember to share and serve others. Children could also write words from our Bible verse today and place the fish in the correct order to recite the verse together.

FISHY PRAYER:

Provide children with cut out fish such as a starfish, an octopus, blue fish, etc from today's story. Tell children to write words for a prayer and place the various types of fish around a poster board and let children form a prayer circle and each can say a sentence prayer to ask Jesus to help them to serve others and to think of others as greater than they are.

RAINBOW PLATE:

Each child can be given a paper plate and many different colors to color the entire plate with colors of a rainbow. The children can then write J - O - Y in a vertical line, in bright red colors. Beside the J, the children can write JESUS, beside the O, they can write OTHERS and beside the Y, they can write YOU. Children can share with each other how to serve JESUS and OTHERS.